Female frogs play dead to avoid unwanted attention, study shows #Shorts



Female frogs will fake their deaths to escape aggressive male frogs, a recent study published in Royal Society Open Science found.

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When invertebrates and vertebrates fake their own deaths, it’s usually been observed as a tactic to avoid predators. Female frogs, however, are using the behavior to avoid a different kind of predator: aggressively clingy males looking to mate.

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11 comments

  1. Some women need to learn this

  2. Not a single comment about actual frogs, just disparaging men, and then wonder why misogyny exists…

  3. Wow
    It’s amazing what nature can do

  4. My ex-wife had a PhD in that move

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  6. Hope my husband doesn't see this

  7. When I stop at QT in the morning and all the men stare like I’m the first female of their species they’ve seen, I’m going to just drop dead until it clears out.

  8. Smart old gals. Probably wouldn’t stop some men but, it’s always worth a try’

  9. I know exactly where she’s coming from 😂

  10. Isn't that a common psychological response to sexual assault in Humans?